I don’t commonly get loads of comments on the website. They are usually close family and friends. Well, the other night, I opened the Wordpress app on the iPhone and it said that there were 99 comments. Darn spam! I marked them one by one. Each time it required many steps. I restarted the app later and noticed that there were 99 more. What?!?! It only displays 99 at a time and creates the list at the start of the application. I went to my computer and there were 274 spam comments waiting. It is easy to spot the spam because the are random user name strings, emails and content. The spam does share one thing: they try to link another site.

There are other spam plugins but I worry about future compatiblity and other people’s code. Wordpress is a VERY simple Content Management System and I would rather be the dictator of my environment. Perhaps that is why I wrote my own Twitter stuff for Wordpress also.

Anyway, since comments are held until I approve you at least once, they just sit there. I wrote a script that lists the possible spam waiting for moderation in the database. If I think it is all spam, I run another script to mark them as spam to be deleted permanently later. It saves me DAILY. I just deleted 34 since last night. It just took a couple of taps on my iPhone.

My steps to delete now are:
1. Open web browser
2. Click the bookmark for the “show spam” script
3. Quickly review the output
4. Click the bookmark for “Mark as spam”

That’s it. Please pull thru. Have a nice day and please come again.